Subj : Anyone out there have any?
To   : MRO
From : Lizard King
Date : Fri Oct 19 2018 08:44:23

  Re: Anyone out there have any?
  By: MRO to Digital Man on Thu Oct 18 2018 19:06:56

 > i think what we need to change is society's lack of a drive to get involved
 > and do something.

I think that's definitely part of it.  A couple other common issues turn up.
Mental illness is one of them, which is hardly surprising.  Until fairly
recently violent, mentally ill people were confined to hospitals.  It wasn't
until the 1960s that people started questioning the ethics involved in that,
and the hospitals began to be shut down in the 70s and 80s.  So today we have a
lot of people wandering around who weren't a few decades ago.

Another is the use of SSRIs, which can cause people to have trouble controlling
impulses among other things.  They are probably overprescribed, for anxiety,
depression, even insomnia.  I've got a doctor right now trying to get me to
take one, even though I've tried one before and it made my symptoms worse.

But maybe more than any of this, I think violence has been glorified and people
have lost their respect for the sanctity of life.  In fact you can't even say
that phrase anymore without people rolling their eyes.  I grew up around guns
and it never would have occured to me to shoot people, no matter how I was
bullied or how messed up my life was.  It didn't occur to me to shoot the
person actually doing that to me, much less everyone else who did nothing about
it.

Something's screwed up and it's got little to do with guns, but the guns make
it all more dangerous.  But as we're seeing in the UK, once we get a handle on
guns, it will become necessary to outlaw knives.  I have no idea what they'll
do about rocks and large pieces of wood.

LK

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